Kevin Harvick
“As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.”
“On any given day, I don’t think there’s anybody who can outdrive me. That’s the mind set I have going into every race.”
Tony Hulman
“Gentlemen, start your engines!”
Mark Martin
(About Jeff Gordon) “You can’t argue with results. And I can’t compete with his record.”
Steve McQueen
“When you’re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.”
Shirley Muldowney
“I want to be the fastest woman in the world - in a manner of speaking.”
“People think it’s easy because you drive in a straight line. What they don’t realize is you’ve got to react in a hurry.”
Danica Patrick
“Hey, I’m just a racer who happens to be a woman. I made several mistakes today but I am with a great team and they helped me get back in the fight for the lead. At one point, I thought, ‘Wow, I could actually win this thing.’”
Richard Petty
(About his 1988 Daytona accident) “I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.”
“We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn’t that much money to be made.”
Tom Sneva
“You just have to treat death like any other part of life.”
Gilles Villeneuve
“I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.”
“If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula One, my third to drive for Ferrari.”
Darrell Waltrip
“Boogity, Boogity, Boogity! Let’s go racing, boys.”
“Fire, wind, rain, and black cars with the No. 3 on them…these things are natural disasters, and you have to steer clear of them.”
Steven Wright
“I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.”
Mario Andretti
“The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.”
Marco Andretti
(About the Indy 500) “Woulda, coulda, shoulda… Second place is nothing. Nobody remembers who finished second here.”
Eddie Arcaro
“I believe Kelso was the best horse I ever rode.”
Dave Barry
“Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.”
Kurt Busch
“Dale Earnhardt told me it doesn’t matter if fans boo or cheer, as long as they’re making noise.”
Rudolf Caracciola
“When speed gets in the blood, one must drive to live.”
George Carlin
“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”
Jimmy Clark
“When you are racing, there isn’t time to worry about the dangers.”
Frank Collison
“The Ocean of Fire is not just a race…if the elements don’t kill you, your fellow riders will.”
Robert Duvall
“He didn’t slam into you, he didn’t bump you, he didn’t nudge you. He rubbed you. And rubbin’, son, is racin’.”
“When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that’s bad.”
Dale Earnhardt
“The most important things in my life are God, my family and that black No. 3 Goodwrench car, in that order.”
Jeff Foxworthy
“If you think the last four words of the national anthem are ‘Gentlemen, start your engines,’ you might be a redneck.”
Janet Guthrie
“You drive the car, you don’t carry it.”